Bachelet takes office as new U.N. rights chief, activists seek...
9/3/2018, 6:26:35 PMFormer Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who took the helm of the U.N. human rights office on Monday, will need a strong voice in confronting populists and crises marked by war crimes, activists said. ✔ Fabrice Coffrini/Pool via REUTERS This is an extraordinarily challenging time for human rights, given the rise of autocratic populists, the increasingly muscular hostility of China and Russia, the loss of the US and often the UK as voices for human rights, and a leadership void making possible a proliferation of atrocities in such places as Syria, Yemen, and Myanmar, Ken Roth, executive-director of Human Rights Watch, told Reuters
Yemenis find solace in cinema after years of war
9/3/2018, 5:17:46 PMYemenis file into a makeshift cinema for the first time since fighting broke out in their city of Aden more than three years ago - and watch some of their own story reflected back at them on the projector screen. ✔ WE ARE WITH YOU Yemen has been devastated by a conflict in which President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi’s government, backed by a Saudi-led Arab coalition, is fighting to drive the Iran-aligned Houthi group out of the capital Sanaa and other cities it seized in 2014
After 17 years of war, Taliban field commanders signal openness to peace talks
9/3/2018, 6:33:07 PMFaced with a resurgent ISIS threat and emboldened by recent gains on the battlefield, two senior Taliban field commanders suggested they are open to peace talks with the Afghan government after 17 years of war. ✔ His comrade, Mullah Abdallah Khan, signaled a similar openness to the idea of talks, saying: Fighting doesn't have any result except destroying both sides ✔ He will draw some satisfaction, then, from the US confirmation that a senior ISIS-K leader, Abu Sayed Orakzai, and 10 of his followers were killed in an American airstrike 10 days ago
Myanmar judge sentences Reuters journalists to 7 years in prison
9/3/2018, 4:01:02 PMThe two journalists were found guilty of violating a colonial-era secrets act in a case widely seen as a blow to press freedom. ✔ She wields power over the civilian government, and observers say that any decision to pardon the two will likely come from her ✔ However, Suu Kyi has not spoken up for press freedom or for the two journalists ✔ If you do, they will go after you, and there are always laws on hand that can be dusted off and used
'US wants terrorists to stay in Idlib; just imagine what Pompeo would say if they were in Oregon'
9/3/2018, 4:26:23 PMThe Syrian government has the right to retake all of Syria, but none of the countries that supported terrorists there want them to return to their own countries, investigative journalist Rick Sterling told RT. ✔ Sergey Lavrov is defending Syrian and Russian assault on #Idlib ✔ The U.S sees this as an escalation of an already dangerous conflict ✔ These are trained terrorists with a lot of battle experience ✔ And also that Turkey rather than Russia and Syria can really get the humanitarian corridors operating effectively
Protests over Yemen's economic malaise spread to other southern cities
9/3/2018, 4:23:25 PMDemonstrations spread to new parts of southern Yemen on Monday even as they eased slightly in the port city of Aden following government orders aimed at strengthening the local currency and reversing economic decline. ✔ After demonstrations paralyzed Aden a day earlier, Hadi’s government ordered a package of measures including a temporary halt on imports of luxury goods like automobiles and a 30 percent salary increase for public-sector employees, including pensioners and contractors
Bodyguard: Keeley Hawes and Richard Madden lark about behind scenes
9/3/2018, 4:08:10 PMHawes, 42, reveals she 'could not have loved' working with Madden more as she heaps praise on her male lead in the footage shared by the BBC on Twitter of the co-stars' behind the scenes banter. ✔ Their on-screen chemistry has had viewers tuning in in their millions to watch their steamy love affair unfold in the BBC's big budget drama, Bodyguard ✔ Hawes, who also starred in Line of Duty, said in the clip shared by the BBC that the drama had been a 'difficult shoot', unfolding in 'different locations every day, all over London,' and that everybody had 'really pulled together'
Bodyguard episode 4 promo: What will happen next?
9/3/2018, 6:08:28 PMBODYGUARD is the brand new political thriller on BBC One. Episode three aired last night and fans are wondering what will happen in episode four. Here’s what we know so far. ✔ You can catch the show on BBC One when it airs or stream the show live on BBC iPlayer ✔ Andy (Tom Brooke) and David served together in Afghanistan and in a major cliffhanger after episode two, it was revealed shooter trying to assassinate Julia was Andy ✔ Bodyguard episode 4 airs Sunday, September 9 at 9pm on BBC One
Ukrainian intelligence agency involved in slaying of Donbass leader – FSB
9/3/2018, 4:26:20 PMRussia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has accused Ukrainian intelligence services of being behind the explosion on Friday which killed Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. ✔ Ukraine’s SBU rejected allegations of its involvement in the murder within hours of the blast, claiming it was a caused by infighting within the rebel republic ✔ Donetsk province, along with neighboring Lugansk, began engaging in armed conflict with the Kiev authorities following the 2014 coup, which ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich
Opinion | This weekend, we really did mourn the passing of America’s greatness
9/3/2018, 4:57:04 PMIt’s true: One version of “American greatness” now belongs in the past tense. ✔ John McCain in Annapolis on Sunday, as a horse-drawn caisson transports his flag-draped casket to the United States Naval Academy Cemetery for burial ✔ As his two runs for president well illustrate, the Republicans began eliminating or repelling people like him nearly two decades ago
UNRWA and Trump's attempt to erase the Palestinian people
9/3/2018, 6:18:15 PMBy cutting the funding to the UNRWA, Trump wants to eliminate the Palestinians' demand for the right to return. ✔ Trump's current idea, by contrast, is to simply force a peace process by destroying all of the institutions that modern states use to manage their population while bringing the inhabitants to the brink of social death ✔ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neve Gordon Neve Gordon is a Marie Curie Fellow and Professor of International Law at Queen Mary University of London
West Ham star apologises to fans for still being pointless after four games
9/3/2018, 6:02:54 PMFans already restless with new boss Manuel Pellegrini's men the only side in the top four divisions yet to get off the mark ✔ The Ukraine international, signed from German powerhouse Borussia Dortmund, came off the bench against promoted Wolves on Saturday but was unable to prevent the Eastenders slumping to a 1-0 home defeat ✔ We have good players and a good coach, but we must fight for results ✔ poll loading West Ham won't be relegated, will they
Trump could push Germany toward Russia and China, veteran diplomat...
9/3/2018, 4:08:29 PMThe longer Donald Trump stays in office, the higher the risk that anti-American forces will gain the upper hand in Germany and push it into the arms of Russia and China, veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger said in an interview. ✔ SERIOUS VIOLATION Against this backdrop, some German politicians are urging the government to seek closer ties with Moscow and Beijing - two authoritarian powers whose values diverge from the liberal democracy that Germany has built in the seven decades since it rose from the ashes of World War Two with American help
Daniel Ortega tightens his grip on Nicaragua
9/3/2018, 5:56:27 PMBut an economic slump could eventually weaken the president’s power ✔ Unloved but unbudgeableDaniel Ortega tightens his grip on Nicaragua But an economic slump could eventually weaken the president’s power TWO months ago Monimbó, a neighbourhood of Masaya, south-east of Managua, was in turmoil ✔ The turning point That changed after paramilitary troops killed 16 peaceful protesters in a massacre on May 30th, Nicaragua’s Mothers’ Day
China pledges $60 billion in aid and loans to Africa, ‘no strings attached’
9/3/2018, 4:01:16 PMCritics are concerned that Beijing is luring poorer nations into “debt traps.” ✔ Take Sri Lanka, which last year had no choice but to grant China a 99-year lease for a Belt and Road Initiative port, after it failed to attract enough business to make its loan payments ✔ Chinese billionaire leaves the U.S. despite arrest on suspicion of sexual assault China warns it could fire back with tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works
German authorities take aim at far-right party's youth wing
9/3/2018, 5:41:17 PMCHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) — German authorities announced efforts Monday to tighten their surveillance of the far-right party Alternative for Germany, or AfD, amid growing concern tha ✔ CHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) German authorities announced efforts Monday to tighten their surveillance of the far-right party Alternative for Germany, or AfD, amid growing concern that it is closing ranks with extremist groups ✔ Tens of thousands of people gathered in Chemnitz on Monday for a free, open-air concert by some of Germany's best-known bands
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